What Both ContraPoints and Blaire White can Learn from Their Debate
The atmosphere was akin to the inside of a volcano despite the very calming aura that both interlocutors of the debate seemed to have.
This is yet another entry in the long standing book of “Why proudly trans people should never debate TERF’s”. What we witnessed was simply ContraPoints trying to fight fire with fire, when the audience was capable of identifying the positions of bad faith Blaire White was taking in regards to the debate.
What I seemed to gather from watching it was that Blaire White thinks trans identity, or at least the veracity of one completely hinges on biological truths, and that’s ironically, not true.
Blaire White, like many of her supporters, seem to ignore that gender is not an arbitrary designation of gender one attaches to themselves the minute they exit their parent’s womb. If anything, we lack any semblance of consent on what and who we choose to be. The absence of consent in such a decision is the first sign that there’s about to be a clash between perceived personality and the one we actually would want to project into this world.
No matter how many times ContraPoints would wave the DSM-5 in front of Blaire White, she would not quite want to understand what the…
